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Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by Hugsbox on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:48AM (#48831945)
It's for detecting porn? I genuinely don't get it. I regularly post actual nudes on discord and never so much as a warning, crazy that a chessboard or grids are doing it. I wonder what makes an algorithm view a grid pattern as pornographic.
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Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by wmf on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:45PM (#48835780)
Somebody said people were posting images of QR codes that contained (links to?) CSAM. But instead of using a QR code decoder, it sounds like Discord used perceptual hashing or AI to detect and ban all QR-like images.
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Re:Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images by Hugsbox on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:50AM (#48843371)
Ohhh that makes a lot more sense. Well, their implementation doesn't, but it makes sense that grids were mistaken for QR codes.
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